Hosea 2:14

In a stunning reversal, God promises to woo the nation back, leading her into the wilderness to speak tenderly to her. Judgment gives way to grace.

Cross-references · 32

• Isa 40:1–2“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.
• Ezek 20:35–36And I will bring you into the wilderness of the nations, where I will enter into judgment with you face to face.
• Rev 12:6And the woman fled into the wilderness, where God had prepared a place for her to be nourished for 1,260 days.
• Isa 30:18Therefore the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore He rises to show you compassion, for the LORD is a just God. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
• Gen 34:3And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.
• John 6:44“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.
• Rev 12:14But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle to fly from the presence of the serpent to her place in the wilderness, where she was nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
• Rom 11:26–27And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The Deliverer will come from Zion; He will remove godlessness from Jacob.
• Zech 1:12–17Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?”
• Song 1:4Take me away with you—let us hurry! May the king bring me to his chambers. We will rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. It is only right that they adore you.
• Zeph 3:9–20For then I will restore pure lips to the peoples, that all may call upon the name of the LORD and serve Him shoulder to shoulder.
• Zech 8:19–23“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”
• Jer 32:36–41Now therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:
• Ezek 37:11–28Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
• Judg 19:3her husband got up and went after her to speak kindly to her and bring her back, taking his servant and a pair of donkeys. So the girl brought him into her father’s house, and when her father saw him, he gladly welcomed him.
• Ezek 39:25–29Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Now I will restore Jacob from captivity and will have compassion on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name.
• Ezek 36:8–15But you, O mountains of Israel, will produce branches and bear fruit for My people Israel, for they will soon come home.
• Isa 35:3–4Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!
• Jer 2:2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
• Isa 51:3–23For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
• Ezek 34:22–31I will save My flock, and they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.
• Ezek 20:10So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.
• Jer 31:1–37“At that time,” declares the LORD, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be My people.”
• Jer 33:6–26Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
• Amos 9:11–15“In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,
• Jer 30:18–22This is what the LORD says: “I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents and have compassion on his dwellings. And the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins, and the palace will stand in its rightful place.
• Isa 49:13–26Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
• Jer 16:14Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’
• Mic 7:14–20Shepherd with Your staff Your people, the flock of Your inheritance. They live alone in a woodland, surrounded by pastures. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.
• Jer 3:12–24Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
• Hos 2:3Otherwise, I will strip her naked and expose her like the day of her birth. I will make her like a desert and turn her into a parched land, and I will let her die of thirst.
• John 12:32And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw everyone to Myself.”

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